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Taber, Gladys
American novelist and children’s writer
(b. April 12, 1899 – d. March 11, 1980, Hyannis, Massachusetts)

Talavera de la Reina, Maria Luisa de Cordona, Duchess de
Spanish grandee, m. Prince Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria (1884 – 1958).
(b. 1870 – d. 1955)

Talbot, Emily Charlotte
British heiress
(b. c1840 – d. Sept, 1918)

Talbott, Gloria
American actress, I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958).
(b. Feb 7, 1931, Glendale, Los Angeles, California – d. Sept 19, 2000, Glendale)

Tamames, Marta de Carril, Duquesa de
Argentinian theatrical producer as ‘Tita Tamames’.
(b. 1921, Paris, France – d. April 12, 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Tang, Frances Young
Chinese-American preservationist and college patron
(b. 1938, Paris, France – d. Jan 31, 1992, Manhattan, New York)

Taplinger, Cecily Lent (Terry)
American business executive
(b. June 11, 1943 – d. June 9, 1983)

Tarente, Emilie von Hesse-Kassel, Princesse de
German-French courtier, corresponded with her niece Sophia of Hanover.
(b. Feb 11, 1626, Hersfeld – d. 1693)

Tasker, Helen
British Catholic philanthropist, created a papal countess by Pius IX (1870).
(b. c1815 – d. 1888)

Tay, Alice Erh-Soon
Chinese-Australian academic lawyer, she was the president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 1998 – 2003.
(b. Feb 2, 1934, Singapore – d. April 26, 2004, Sydney, Australia)

Taylor, Charity Clifford, Lady
British prison director and reformer
(b. Sept 16, 1914, Woking, Surrey – d. Jan 4, 1998)

Taylor, Estelle
American actress, Call Her Savage (1932) : The Southerner (1945).
(b. May 20, 1894, Wilmington, Delaware – d. April 15, 1958, Los Angeles, California)

Taylor, Harriet Hardy
British philosopher and author, women’s rights advocate
(b. Oct 10, 1807, Walworth, near London
d. March 11, 1858, Avignon, Provence, France)

Taylor, Helen Rosen
American senior judge of the District of Columbia Supreme Court
(b. 1931, the Bronx, New York – d. Aug 18, 1997, Washington, D.C.)

Taylor, Margaret Sophia
British politician
(b. April 16, 1877 – d. Feb, 1962)

Taylor, Margerie Venables
British academic
(b. Jan 20, 1881 – d. Dec 24, 1963)

Taylor, Susannah Cook
British letter writer, mother of Sarah Taylor Austin, grandmother of Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon.
(b. 1755 – d. 1823)

Tead, Clara
American educator, president of Briarcliff College 1942 – 1960.
(b. 1891, Newton, Massachusetts – d. March 2, 1980, Washington, D.C.)

Teale, Nellie Imogen
American naturalist
(b. 1901 – d. July, 1993)

Te Kiri Karamu, Heni
Maori warrior and interpreter, fought against the British as Pukehinahina (Gate Pa) (1864).
(b. Nov 14, 1840, Kaitaia – d. June 24, 1933, Rotorua, New Zealand)

Teleki, Jane Frances Bickersteth, Countess
British Catholic heiress, only child of Henry Langdale.
(b. 1837 – d. May 3, 1870)

Teresa of Castile
Queen regnant of Portugal c1116 – 1130, mother of Alfonso I Henriques (1110 – 1185).
(b. 1070, Castile – d. Nov 1, 1130)

Terriss, Ellaline (Lady Hicks)
British actress, The Iron Duke (1934) : The Four Just Men (1939).
(b. April 13, 1872, Stanley, Falkland Islands – d. June 16, 1971, London)

Terry, Dame Ellen Alicia
British actress
(b. Feb 27, 1847 – d. July 21, 1928)

Theodora of Greece
Princess, sister-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, m. (1931) Berthold of Baden (1906 – 1963).
(b. May 30, 1906 – d. Oct 16, 1969)

Theophano Skleraina
Holy Roman empress, m. Otto II (955 – 983). Regent 983 – 991 for her son Otto III.
(b. 956, Constantinople – d. June 15, 991, Nijmegen)

Theutberga of Metz
Carolingian queen, first wife of Lothair II, King of Lorraine. Divorced (862).
(b. c839 – d. Nov 25, 875, Abbey of St Clodesinde, Metz)

Thirkell, Angela Margaret
British novelist
(b. Jan 30, 1880 – d. Jan 29, 1961)

Thomas, Alice
British writer
(b. c1837 – d. Nov 24, 1918)

Thomas, Elizabeth
British poet and letter writer, Miscellany Poems (1722).
(b. c1675, London – d. Feb 3, 1731, London)

Thomas, Mabel Randall
American director of ‘Big Sister’ program for troubled children.
(b. 1917, Montgomery, Alabama – d. July 14, 1992, Manhattan, New York)

Thompson, Edith Marie
British civil servant
(b. c1886 – d. Aug 25, 1961)

Thompson, Emma
British actress, Henry V (1989) : Imagining Argentina (2003).
(b. April 15, 1959, Paddington, London)

Thompson, Flora Jane
British writer, Lark Rise to Candleford (1945).
(b. Dec 5, 1876, Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire
d. May 21, 1947, Brixham, Devon, Cornwall)

Thompson, Marian Spitzer
American journalist, novelist and television writer, author of The Palace and The Loretta Young Show.
(b. 1899 – d. July 17, 1983, New York)

Thompson, Sophie
British actress, Miss Bates in Emma (1996) : Nicholas Nickleby (2002).
(b. 1962, London)

Thompson, Sylvia
British novelist
(b. Sept 4, 1902 – d. April 27, 1968)

Thomson, Beatrice
Australian civic activist and memoirist, They Called Me Irish, MBE (1968).
(b. March 4, 1902, Belfast, Ireland – d. June, 1999, Hornsby, Sydney, Australia)

Thomson, Patricia Tyler
British academic, Reader in English, Queen Mary’s College, University of London.
(b. 1921 – d. Jan 30, 1998, London)

Thomson, Rosemary Edith Robertson
British magistrate and civil servant
(b. 1934 – d. Oct 23, 2001)

Thornton, Barbara
American vocalist, performer of medieval music, including sacred and secular works of St Hildegard of Bingen.
(b. 1950 – d. Nov, 1998)

Thorold, Phyllis Margaret
British courtier, lady-in-waiting 1963 – 1965 to Mary, Princess Royal, daughter of George V.
(b. June 3, 1909)

Thurman, Uma
American actress
(b. April 29, 1970, Boston, Massachusetts)

Thyra of Denmark
Princess, daughter of Christian IX and Louise of Hesse-Kassel, maternal aunt of Russian tsar Nicholas II and British king George V, m. (1878) Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick (1845 – 1933).
(b. Sept 29, 1853, Copenhagen, Denmark – d. Feb 26, 1933, Gmunden, Austria)

Tichborne, Henriette Felicie Seymour, Lady
British patrician, the imposter Arthur Orton claimed to be her son Roger Tichborne.
(b. c1805 – d. March 12, 1868)

Timperley, Rosemary Kenyon
British novelist and ghost story writer, The House of Mad Children (1980).
(b. March 20, 1920, London – d. 1988)

Tingry, Marie Charlotte Louise d’Albert, Princesse de
French courtier, implicated in the ‘Affair of the Poisons’ (1679 – 1680).
(b. 1623 – d. July 16, 1706)

Titus, Lydia Yeamans
Australian-American actress
(b. c1866 – d. Dec 29, 1929, Glendale, California)

Tiye (Taia)
Queen of Egypt, m. Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaton.
(b. c1405 – d. c1351 B.C.E.)

Todd, Thelma
American actress
(b. July 29, 1905, Lawrence, Massachusetts
d. Dec 16, 1935, Pacific Palisades, California)

Tokuko
Japanese empress, she was the first wife of emperor Takakura (1161 – 1181) and mother of the child emperor Antoku (1178 – 1185).
(b. 1155 – d. 1213)

Topf, Nancy
American modern dance improviser and choreographer, educator and writer.
(b. 1943, Wisconsin – d. Sept 2, 1998, near Nova Scotia, in an air crash)

Topping, Melissa Stutsman
American executive of the Henry Luce Foundation.
(b. 1942, St Louis, Missouri – d. April 3, 1992, Manhattan, New York)

Toulouse, Marie Victoire Sophie de Noailles, Comtesse de
French political salonniere, daughter-in-law of Louis XIV.
(b. May 6, 1688 – d. Sept 30, 1766, Hotel de Toulouse, Paris)

Townshend, Gwladys Sutherst, Marhioness
British horsebreeder, Mayor of King’s Lynn, Norfolk (1928).
(b. 1883 – d. Oct 10, 1959)

Townshend, Philippa Sophia Kidston-Montgomerie, Marchioness
British society figure, m. (2004) George John, 7^th Marquess (b. 1916).
(b. April 28, 1935)

Trask, Katrina
American writer
(b. c1851 – d. Jan 7, 1922)

Travell, Janet G.
American presidential physician to J.F. Kennedy, and pain specialist.
(b. Dec 17, 1901, New York – d. Aug 1, 1997, Northampton, Massachusetts)

Travis, Nancy
American actress, Married to the Mob (1988) : the television series Becker (1998) : Rose Red (2002).
(b. Sept 21, 1961, New York)

Treat, Ida
American educator, journalist and author.
(b. 1889 – d. March 25, 1978, Poughkeepsie, New York)

Trefusis, Mary Lygon, Lady
British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Queen Mary, wife of George V.
(b. Feb 26, 1869 – d. Sept 12, 1927)

Trintignant, Marie
French actress, killed by her lover, singer and lyricist Bertrand Cantaut.
(b. 1962 – d. 2003, Vilnius, Poland)

Trisler, Joyce
American choreographer
(b. 1934, Los Angeles, California – d. Oct 9, 1979, Manhattan, New York)

Troyanos, Tatiana
American mezzo-soprano
(b. Sept 12, 1938, New York – d. Aug 21, 1993, Manhattan)

Trung Tac
Vietnamese rebel leader against the Chinese. Her memory revered in Vietnam.
(b. c15 – executed 43 C.E.)

Tuchman, Barbara
American historian and author, The Guns of August (1960).
(b. 1912, New York – d. 1989)

Tueni, Nadia Hamade
Lebanese poet
(b. July 8, 1935 – d. June 20, 1983)

Tully, Grace
American author, secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, F.D.R. – My Boss (1949).
(b. Aug 9, 1900, Bayonne, New Jersey – d. June 15, 1984, Washington, D.C.)

Turner, Carmen
American official
(b. 1930 – d. April, 1992)

Tusap, Srbuhi
Armenian poet and novelist
(b. 1841 – d. 1901)

Tweeddale, Hannah Charlotte Lombe, Marchioness of
British captive, died a prisoner of Napoleon I at the fortress of Verdun.
(b. c1763 – d. May 8, 1804, Verdun, France)

Tweeddale, Julia Charlotte Sophia Stewart-Mackenzie, Marchioness of
Scottish memoirist, m. the 9^th Marquess.
(b. 1846 – d. 1937)

Tweedsmuir, Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan, Lady
British Life Peer 1948 – 1978.
(b. 1915 – d. 1978)